Sentences with phrase «addressing challenges posed by climate change»

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) consists of 192 countries that seek to develop intergovernmental policies addressing challenges posed by climate change.

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An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.